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I guess this is a combination of the pellet gun thread and the bloodthirsty childhood thread.
A couple of years ago, Khukuri_Monster found some plans for pneumatic spud guns. One day we raided the Home Depot and made a couple. These are fired by compressed air, while normal spud guns use hairspray ignited by a BBQ sparker. They consist of a PVC barrel attatched to a ball-valve, with a large air chamber and tire inflation valve attatched underneath the barrel by some elbows and adapters. Im sure that KM can post the schematics.
To fire them you shove your projectile down the barrel, close the valve, then fill to around 110 psi with an air compressor. A flip of the ball valve handle sets it all off.
The standard ammo is of course, potatos. But the standard never seems to be good enough does it? I had a pallet set up in my back yard as a target, and within a few months it was reduced to splinters. The original barrel was 2" wide so to shoot something it either had to fit perfectly, or you had to use a dixie cup as a sabot. Crab apples in a dixie cup were fun, so was filling a dixie cup full of fish food pellets and carpeting the whole pond with it at once.
One day I decided to fill the whole barrel up with water to make a giant cloud of mist. The weight of the water was too great however, and the act of firing it sent it flying out of my hands and into the wall of our barn, breaking the PVC barrel. I decided to replace the PVC with a 1x36" iron pire threaded directly into the ball valve.
The iron pipe gave higher velocities, but limited the ammo choices. I used carrots, which would break boards on the pallet. Then empty shotgun shells filled with birdshot which when fired into the woods made tremendous noise and from the sounds it made hitting the leaves, a 50x50 foot pattern. Then came batteries wrapped in duct tape, those go straight through a pallet and splash acid all over. My next step up the projectile ladder was the little silver co2 tanks wrapped in duct tape. These were supposed to explode, but I never got them too.
Stupid? Sure.
A summers worth of shlts and grins? Hell yeah!!
Now looking around the internet, it seems like people are getting fancy and rifling PVC. Oh well, spud gun technology marches on. I think KM converted his to a breech-loader and installed an electronic sprinkler valve as a trigger.
Heres a decent website: http://www.spudtech.com/
Have any of you psychos made spud guns? Have any good stories? Lost and/or crippled body parts?
A couple of years ago, Khukuri_Monster found some plans for pneumatic spud guns. One day we raided the Home Depot and made a couple. These are fired by compressed air, while normal spud guns use hairspray ignited by a BBQ sparker. They consist of a PVC barrel attatched to a ball-valve, with a large air chamber and tire inflation valve attatched underneath the barrel by some elbows and adapters. Im sure that KM can post the schematics.
To fire them you shove your projectile down the barrel, close the valve, then fill to around 110 psi with an air compressor. A flip of the ball valve handle sets it all off.
The standard ammo is of course, potatos. But the standard never seems to be good enough does it? I had a pallet set up in my back yard as a target, and within a few months it was reduced to splinters. The original barrel was 2" wide so to shoot something it either had to fit perfectly, or you had to use a dixie cup as a sabot. Crab apples in a dixie cup were fun, so was filling a dixie cup full of fish food pellets and carpeting the whole pond with it at once.
One day I decided to fill the whole barrel up with water to make a giant cloud of mist. The weight of the water was too great however, and the act of firing it sent it flying out of my hands and into the wall of our barn, breaking the PVC barrel. I decided to replace the PVC with a 1x36" iron pire threaded directly into the ball valve.
The iron pipe gave higher velocities, but limited the ammo choices. I used carrots, which would break boards on the pallet. Then empty shotgun shells filled with birdshot which when fired into the woods made tremendous noise and from the sounds it made hitting the leaves, a 50x50 foot pattern. Then came batteries wrapped in duct tape, those go straight through a pallet and splash acid all over. My next step up the projectile ladder was the little silver co2 tanks wrapped in duct tape. These were supposed to explode, but I never got them too.
Stupid? Sure.
A summers worth of shlts and grins? Hell yeah!!
Now looking around the internet, it seems like people are getting fancy and rifling PVC. Oh well, spud gun technology marches on. I think KM converted his to a breech-loader and installed an electronic sprinkler valve as a trigger.
Heres a decent website: http://www.spudtech.com/
Have any of you psychos made spud guns? Have any good stories? Lost and/or crippled body parts?
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